[Chris Whitmore]

Hey Alex, Joseph, Paul-

I have been reading up on your thread the past few days and found it really useful. I agree, Bridge and Premiere seem to have a great theoretical workflow going with Keyword metadata and organizing huge volumes of video clips. (like in Paul’s case)

In my situation, I’m organizing a feature doc with about 5 years of footage, and it’s definitely coming down to metadata- as a way to organize this huge haystack of material. (more than 3800mov’s, 6TB footage folder!) Here’s my challenge:

I have been cautiously testing Keyword tagging in Bridge, with all the footage folders of the project already in Premiere. tags show up perfectly, and i’m glad: but the search bin functionality in Premiere leaves a lot to be desired. Firstly! You cannot search by Keyword. Has anyone noticed this? If i add Keywords to the metadada display in the project window, i can use FIND in a rudimentary way, but there tends to be a lot of problems. (false positives from other metadata, like tape name, etc) I wish i could map the “Keyword” schema to something searchable within premiere.

Basically, we’re at the last step to being able to search a HUGE volume of media for tags based on characters, locations, etc. So close I can taste it! but right now, i can only search by FIND within bins, not using searchbins.

Does this make sense to you guys? I’m curious since my filmmaking colleagues have no suggestions.

cheers

[Chris Whitmore]

Francisco,

I’m glad i found your note- I am literally working on the EXACT same workflow, with AVCHD fs100, gh4 footage and the need to update Clip names based on the new linked filenames.

Now that we have MOV files, we aren’t conforming, settings are great, and the editing is a million times easier/better/more efficient… except that the project has 156 versions of “00001.MTS” in various bins. blegh. on the file end, we have complete UNIQUE filenames just waiting to update into the clip names- but to no avail: there is no batch conversion in this direction it seems.

Has this ever been solved? Even by some third-party software or something? I know for sure that I haven’t learned it in the 6 or so years i have been fuddling with PrPro and it’s quirkiness. No disrespect, Premiere.

This would save my A** on an feature film project we are working on. Any ideas are welcome.

Thanks in advance.
Chris